Held, Pushed, and 22918 (3 Complete Novels) by Kimberly A. Bettes

Author:Kimberly A. Bettes [Bettes, Kimberly A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Case Publishing
Published: 2015-06-11T23:00:00+00:00

14

For a long time, I sat on the couch in the living room, listening to the tick of the clock on the wall and wondering what I should do next. I could go upstairs and rough him up a bit, give him a small taste of things to come his way.

Or I could stop being a pussy and open the door that almost certainly led to the basement.

I stood up and walked to the stairs. Instead of going up them, back to the second floor and the room in which I’d left Ron strapped to the bed, I stepped over to the door underneath.

I was positive this door led to a basement. Ron Redwine would never live in a house that didn’t have an underground torture chamber. I held out hope that I was wrong. I hoped with all my heart to open the door and find nothing more than a few coats and maybe a vacuum cleaner.

Still ignoring the instinct to run from the house, I reached out and turned the knob. Pulling the door open, I saw at once that I was right. My heart sank, taking with it my hopes of being wrong.

A wooden staircase led down to a dark basement.

For a while, I just stood there, staring into the darkness beyond the doorway. It was impossible to ignore the memories that washed over me, memories of being carried and dragged into and out of a basement similar to this one. Memories of watching as Ron carried trash bags of women’s body parts up the stairs and out of the house. Memories of blood and gore, coldness and horror.

I closed my eyes and willed the memories away, pushing them as far back into the recesses of my mind as I possibly could. I reminded myself that this time things were different. This time Ron was tied up in his bedroom on the second floor of the house. He was no danger to me now, no threat. What happened to me last time wouldn’t happen again.

Summoning my courage—what little of it there was—I flipped on the light switch and reluctantly stepped across the threshold and placed my foot on the top step. Then the next one, and then the next. Before I stepped on the next step, a thought occurred to me. What if I got down there and found a beaten and battered woman clinging to life? Could I stand to see that? What would I do if I came face to face with a woman who was begging for her life?

Obviously—assuming I didn’t throw myself into the nearest corner, bury my face in my hands, and scream—I would set her free. The problem would be when she fled the house only to return in a matter of minutes with the police in tow. That wouldn’t leave me time to do all the things to Ron that I’d planned to do, but I supposed it would be ample enough time to simply kill him and leave the premises.

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